Amels Sells Its Tenth 60-Metre Hull, Project Vogue, for 2027

Who bought the tenth Amels 60, and for how much?

Damen Yachting confirmed on 2 September 2026 that hull ten in its Amels 60 Limited Editions series, known during construction as Project Vogue, has sold through broker Arcon Yachts, with neither the buyer's identity nor the final price disclosed.

The yard's own statement credits the sale to demand for a platform that pairs a fixed, engineered hull with a genuinely personal interior. Konstantin Kolpakov of Arcon Yachts, who brokered the deal, said the owner was looking for a yacht that combined proven technical foundations with a high degree of refinement and personalisation. Rob Luijendijk, Damen Yachting's commercial director, called it another clear indication of how strongly the Amels 60 continues to resonate with the market. Neither statement names a price, and Damen Yachting has not disclosed one for any Amels 60 sale since the fifth hull.

The last public number on this specific hull dates to July 2025, when Amels 6010 went up for sale at an asking price of EUR 79 million as she arrived in Vlissingen for outfitting. Whether the final figure landed above, at, or below that mark is not published, which matters to anyone using this sale as a market comparable: an asking price fourteen months old is a starting point for a benchmark, not the benchmark itself. The timing is not incidental either: the announcement lands six days before the Cannes Yachting Festival opens on 8 September, the point in the calendar when brokers and yards routinely clear announcements they have been sitting on, ahead of the buyers and press who gather there and again three weeks later at the Monaco Yacht Show.

What are the specifications of the Amels 60 Project Vogue?

Project Vogue is a 60-metre, 853 GT yacht for up to twelve guests in six suites, drawn by Espen Oino and built on Damen Yachting's Amels 60 platform, with delivery set for 2027 from the Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands.

The naval architecture and exterior lines are shared across the whole ten-hull run, which is the point of a Limited Editions line: Espen Oino's design has not been redrawn since the series began, and the standard specification lists a top speed of 15.5 knots against a cruising speed of 13 knots on twin MTU diesels, with a working range of roughly 4,500 nautical miles. Damen Yachting has not stated whether Project Vogue carries the hybrid propulsion option fitted to the ninth hull, QU2, delivered earlier this year - a detail a serious buyer should confirm directly rather than assume from an older sister ship's spec sheet.

Hull construction happens in Gdynia, Poland, before the vessel is towed to Vlissingen for systems installation and the interior fit-out, the same sequence followed for hull nine. A twenty-three person crew runs the boat day to day, generous for a 60-metre and in line with the beach club, spa-grade wellness spaces and multiple lounge decks the model is built around. None of this is new to the platform; what changes hull to hull is who draws the rooms behind it. The two-year build slot is possible only because Amels does not wait for a signed contract before starting a hull. The approach traces back to Tigre d'Or, a 49.99-metre Amels delivered in 1997 that became the basis for eight sister yachts sharing the same hull, engineering and layout under individual interiors - the same idea now applied to the Amels 60. Damen Yachting has been able to fund that speculative building since Amels joined the Damen group in 1991, a level of financial backing most independent yards lack; each successive hull also becomes marginally cheaper and faster to build as the yard clears the engineering issues a genuinely new design would still be working through.

How customisable is the interior of an Amels 60?

The hull, engineering and naval architecture are fixed across all ten Amels 60s, but the interior is a genuinely open commission: Project Vogue is the first Amels 60 with rooms by Italian designer Laura Sessa, following earlier hulls fitted out by Winch Design and by Harrison Eidsgaard.

Winch Design has now worked on four of the ten hulls, most recently QU2, which it dressed in a coastal-calm scheme with a Pacific Islands influence. Hull seven went to Harrison Eidsgaard for a 2025 delivery. Laura Sessa's design has worked with Amels before on other models, but Project Vogue marks her first commission specifically on the 60-metre platform - a genuine first for the series rather than a repeat pairing, and the detail most likely to distinguish this hull from her nine sisters when she is eventually photographed.

This is the trade a Limited Editions buyer is actually making: none of the naval architecture, structural volume or exterior silhouette is open to change, but the six-suite layout, materials, joinery and public-room concept are a full commission with a name designer, on a schedule the yard already knows how to hit. It is a narrower brief than a full-custom project, and a faster, lower-risk one.

Why do buyers keep choosing an unchanged Amels 60 design over a full-custom build?

Buyers are choosing the Amels 60 for the same reason twice: a known, already-proven hull removes most of the schedule and performance risk of a superyacht purchase, and recent hulls have sold before launch rather than after delivery.

Hull nine, QU2, sold weeks before her January 2026 launch. Hull ten has now sold roughly a year after being listed and well before her 2027 delivery. Both point the same way: buyers are transacting on the strength of the platform's track record rather than waiting to see the finished yacht, which is only possible because nine prior hulls already exist as a public reference for how the design performs, how it holds resale value, and how reliably Damen Yachting hits a delivery date. The line's first hull, Come Together, arrived in Vlissingen for outfitting in July 2021 and was delivered in spring 2022, going on to win an industry award in 2023 - the reference point every subsequent buyer, including whoever has just signed for Project Vogue, is implicitly buying into. Nine hulls old and five years into deliveries, the platform now has enough of a track record that a buyer can point to a specific sister ship's performance, resale price or ownership experience rather than taking the yard's word for any of it.

Full-custom yards sell the promise of an unrepeated yacht; Amels is selling the opposite promise, a design with ten data points behind it. For an owner who wants distinction primarily in the rooms rather than the running gear, that trade increasingly looks like the better-informed purchase, not the compromise one.